ABOUT
Lea Schlude studied Philosophy & Film at Universität Hildesheim, Universidade Federal do Para, Belém (Brazil) and Freie Universität Berlin. Her debut feature film SAN CIPRIANO ROAD (2019) screened at international film festivals worldwide and received awards for Best Feature Documentary at Olhares do Mediterraneo Film Festival Lisbon and Roma Cinema Doc Film Festival. Lea Schlude is a recipient of the Wim Wenders Grant from the Wim Wenders Foundation and NRW Film Commission for the development of
her second feature documentary HAZY VALLEY, and was a fellow of the Documentary Campus Masterschool 2023. Her recent medium length film STEELWORKER (2025) targets gender equality in the German steel industry and is currently streaming on German public broadcast.
FILMOGRAPHY
2027 HAZY VALLEY 90 min. - in development
2025 STAHLARBEITERIN (Changing Rolls) 31 min.
2019 SAN CIPRIANO ROAD (Via San Cipriano), Germany/Italy, 67 min.
NOTE
My work explores issues of place, memory and identity at the intersection of film and philosophy. I am interested in the major political struggles of contemporary societies - labor, race, gender and ecology - and how they manifest locally, in human interactions within specific environments and microcosms. While my research is informed by critical theory, I feel especially drawn to textures and fragments, peripheries and liminal spaces between nature and culture, objects and subjects, body and mind.
MEMBERSHIPS
AG DOK - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm
Doc/it - Associazione Documentaristi Italiani